The only place I'll offer a counter-view is on the topic of H1B Visas in this video.
This comes from the perspective of being an analytics consultant and IT business owner for close to 30 years.
We could never get the appropriate resources - for software/mobile development, test/test automation/devops, analytics/datawarehousing/etc through just a US labor force. Since I coach high school tennis now, I also get to ask a lot of students what they plan on studying in college.
Almost none are picking STEM degrees - preferring business, marketing, finance, psychology, etc.
*** Now - side point - I do not even advocate for college education any longer (even though my wife and I both got nursing/engineering degrees...and both of our daughters got degrees). I prefer technical school - and wish our labor system had more of an apprentice-style approach for new employees entering the work force. Employers get inexpensive labor that they can train to their specifications - employees get paid while also avoiding college debt.
So this dearth of STEM education has resulted in a dearth of analysts/developers/testers in IT. Not enough bodies for the work to be done, so we had to augment with H1B.
This is a nuanced issue because I also interviewed many people who were unqualified and - in some cases - were sent to me by a body shop that produced false copy/paste resumes. They also paid those consultants pennies-on-the-dollar relative to their US counterparts. Our broken money system, incredible asset inflation, sense of entitlement, and understanding that they are a scarce (citizen) commodity has our US born job applicants asking for SIGNIFICANTLY MORE in regard to W2/1099 bill rate. When a client is driving down your proposal costs, and your competitors are willing to drop theirs, it becomes a work of art to build a team of US-based citizens as well as supplementing with H1B.
Now - back to that dearth of STEM candidates. You do NOT build a backlog of them in a day...a year...arguably 5+ years. I think Trump came to that painful realization between when he said "no more H1B", to we need to have H1B to keep our universities open (don't care on that one) and our factories with a competent labor force.
I very much want to reshore our manufacturing, and become self-sovereign as well as better national defense without dependencies upon our adversaries, but we will need to wean off of H1Bs over years while strongly encouraging our youth to get STEM/trade school education.
We also need to Fix the Money, Fix the World...so employees do not have to constantly ask for raises that prices them out of the market (and perpetuating the vicious asset price inflation loop). We need more employers paying in bitcoin - and employees financially savvy enough to at least convert into bitcoin, so their hard work is not debased.
Please share this post a little more - interested in driving the discussion to get other opinions. We do NOT get to recover in 1-3 years what took 40-100 years to corrupt. I would love to see folks like nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpqs05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sgew2ua nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytndv9kxjm3wdahxcqg5waehxw309ahx7um5wfekzarkvyhxuet5qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncdhu7e3 nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wsqzp382htsmu08k277ps40wqhnfm60st89h5pvjyutghq9cjasuh38q7t6dtc and nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyehwumn8ghj7mnhvvh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7ctewe4xcetfd3khsvrpdsmk5vnsw96rydr3v4jrz73hvyu8xqpqsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q8dzj6n weighing in on this one...those latter two specifically because they also ran (much larger than my 100+ person shop that got acquired and grew to about 2,500) tech companies. That combined 2,500 employee company had an onshore/nearshore/offshore model to suit client demands.
I would not accept payment in Bitcoin, but much like cash, I doubt that's a choice I get to make when the time comes.
You speak on H1B, college education, and financial products, but the statement that resonates strongest "We could never get the appropriate resources."
The relationship between LTC and DOGE should be enough to realize the value of printed money will always be greater than Bitcoin. Even in a trustless system, the asset with consistently constant inflation wins. Bitcoin is the shovel, cash is king.
This is like that "money doesn't buy happiness" nonsense.
Here comes the disappointment. They need to regulate and control this beast before releasing banks to it. Clocks ticking.
Monero is critically flawed and will be exposed in the years to come. No amount of upgrades or improvement proposals are going to change that fact. Until XMR adopts better security, the fundamental chain should be considered compromised. All accounts and transactions will be public.
The goal is not to adopt Bitcoin, but to avoid it at all costs, leveraging its value into your own networks; forcing Bitcoin to accept your own values, your own chains, in exchange for the goods and services you provide.
Regulations will send Bitcoin the way of ETC, while everyone rejects the "new" institutionalized fork that becomes mainstream Bitcoin, used by government nationals. I think it goes much lower, if not to the $1,000s. DeFi will evolve.
Bitcoin é um produto do capitalismo e do controle. Favorece as instituições poderosas e ricas que o adotam, e é por isso que o adotaram. Não faz nada para resolver os dilemas da política monetária ou da desigualdade de riqueza, e potencialmente piora as coisas para aqueles que adotam tarde ou não têm educação.
Get a rental with lane centering. Costs about the same, fits the whole family, and free luggage. Airlines haven't been reliable since 2020.
We know shit about fuck and have been successful astroturfing its existence since then.
I'm in, who's with me 💯🤘 https://video.nostr.build/eb7b9730a5d1c218f3d2182706ea465e4c29ce484a9cbb2ad41c0b2e9b2a0a67.mp4
Will said treasure be cursed?
8 years ago.. I've seen enough to know people will follow the money. Embrace FEDcoin, it's the law.
Doubt the government comes back with the money printer. Expecting the first round of impactful legislation targeting infrastructure like nodes and miners. You may choose to not play ball, but institutions won't have that liberty, therefore you won't have that liberty. The original blockchain will become another altcoin, crippled by hashrate. This is the system you signed up for when buying Bitcoin.
You still need someone else to buy it. My dog's chew toy is a million dollars. Feel free to make an offer.
The narrative that Bitcoin will replace fiat currency truly misunderstands how disruptive technology reshapes markets. The correct analogy is not destruction, but consolidation. Look no further than the retail giant Walmart and how they embraced the internet.
Walmart adapted, integrating e-commerce to become a dominant omnichannel player.
The real victims were local, family owned "mom and pop" stores, whose ability to compete on price, selection, and logistics was crushed by the new, hyper-efficient digital landscape.
In the end, the new financial system will likely be hybrid: a digital system run by the world's largest financial entities and governments, layered on top of or inspired by decentralized technologies. Products like Bitcoin will supercharge these incumbents, not replace them. It offers the tools for a cheaper, faster global financial system, one that the most powerful actors are best positioned to leverage, further cementing their dominance over smaller, regional competitors.
Let it fail. Institutions have already shown to favor control over community values. Why Bitcoin is preferred over XMR; Why ETH is more valuable than ETC. You'll be fed a narrative that LTC is silver and DOGE is copper; when's the last time copper was more valuable than silver? What makes Bitcoin gold?
Banks supporting an asset built to debase them should tell you it's broken. You're told to buy because they own it, but we don't need it.
Institutions are not holding their coins to zero. At best, they use them as collateral, effectively shorting the system, you.
Be your own bank means make your own money. Proof of work requires labor.
Planned obsolescence has been a staple of modern technology. Bitcoin is no different.
Sam Bankman-Fried did nothing wrong. #FreeSBF
Everyone is attached to their opinions, but this seems more like regulatory pressure on Bitcoin Core. It opens governments to target infrastructure that doesn't conform to their regulations. When you have whole institutions with billions invested in mining and infrastructure; run the fork or face the courts.